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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.
Texas Education Code 28.06
Components of Reading Instruction
Chall's Stage 1
Standard deviation
2. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Fluency
Joe Torgesen
Keith Stanovich
3. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Whole Language
Texas Education Code 28.06
WRAT
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
4. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun
Derivative
Syllable
Matthew Effect
Cedilla
5. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Visual Learners
Middle English
Sight Words
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
6. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Derivative
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Digraph
Age equivalent
7. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag
[-'le
The Norman Conquest
Profile
Grade equivalents
8. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
RTI
Synthetic Instruction
Modern English
Cognition
9. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail
Chall's Stage 1
Diagnostic Teaching
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Visual Processing
10. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
Tactile
Mathew Effect
Diphthong
Joe Torgesen
11. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Syllable
Modern English
V-e
Modification
12. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Syllable Instruction
Letter naming Chart
Combination
13. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
RTI
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
VAKT
Criterion referenced tests
14. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Standard score
Great Vowel Shift
Phonics
James Hinshelwood
15. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Components of Reading Instruction
Accent
Prefix
Modification
16. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Norm-referenced tests
Visual Learners
Rate
Accommodation
17. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Top-down Reading Approach
IDEA
Chall's Stage 5
18. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Standard score
Standard deviation
Quadrigraph
Chall's Stage 2
19. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Impulsivity
Receptive language
Syllable
Accommodation
20. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Great Vowel Shift
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
NICHD
Analytic
21. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Sound Symbol Association
Anglo Saxon
Open Syllable
Battery
22. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
23. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Frank Smith
Rate
Reliability
Adolf Kusmaul
24. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Reliability
Rate
Raw score
Syllable
25. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
ALTA
Phonics
IMSLEC
Sound Symbol Association
26. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
RTI
Academic Achievement Tests
Phonics
Frank Smith
27. Feeling through fingertips
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Fluency
Tactile
Components of Reading Instruction
28. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Joe Torgesen
ADHD
29. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
Syllable
Vowel Digraph
VAKT
Pre-English
30. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Quadrigraph
Chall's Stage 5
Tactile
Phoneme
31. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.
Standard Scores
Grapheme
Grade equivalents
Keith Stanovich
32. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Morphology
Phonics
Diphthong
Accommodation
33. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Consonant Digraph
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
MSL
Comprehension
34. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Standard Scores
Chall's Stage 4
Whole Language
Direct Instruction
35. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Prefix
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Six basic types of syllables
Profile
36. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy
Expressive language
Funding
CTOPP
Vowel Digraph
37. Multisensory Structured Language
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Frank Smith
MSL
Rate
38. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia
Percentile
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
VV
Direct Instruction
39. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media
Visual Learners
Affix
SBOE
IDEA
40. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds
Towre
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Linguistic Method
Affix
41. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Expressive language
IEP
Modern English
Percentile
42. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
Phonemic Awareness
Percentile/ percentile rank
Expressive language
Top-down Reading Approach
43. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
Criterion referenced tests
Closed Syllable
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Anglo Saxon
44. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Syllable Instruction
Cognitive Assessment
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Accent
45. Open syllable
Closed Syllable
Texas Education Code 28.06
Comprehension
V >
46. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Criterion referenced tests
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Curriculum referenced tests
IMSLEC
47. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Tactile
GORT
Analytic
WIATII
48. Academic Language Therapy Association
Percentile
ALTA
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
[-'le
49. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
Sight Words
Towre
Greek layer of language
Latin layer of language
50. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development